sinking down, down

[facultwist]

Death is a drop into a blackness that swallows you. You feel the movement of not air but shadow across your face as you plummet, and there is no bottom. No crash.

If there is another side, you do not reach it.

It is neither the light of heaven or the fires of hell that greets you when you wake. And wake you do, to the buzz and flicker of old fluorescent lights.

You are laid out beside a full-size competitive swimming pool, half-filled with stagnant water. The doors out are blocked off by locked doors covered in caution tape. The locker rooms are long since emptied, paint peeling from the humidity. The only signs of habitation are a few pieces of scattered graffiti.

Welcome to your new home. There's no sunlight, no indication of time passing. Just you and each other and your thoughts. the stagnant water bubbles a little occasionally, but there's nothing in it.

Before long you'll realize that you no longer need to eat or drink. You might notice your hand go through something if you don't focus. You're a ghost now. What's that they say about unfinished business?

Comments

[thatsplato]

[Misty is up to something truly heinous-- beaming while she listens to Mariko's dream--]

A beautiful girl with big blonde curls, like a doll....

[rosewitch]

Not you, then.

1/2

[thatsplato]

[sweetsynergy]

Holy shit.

2/2

[thatsplato]

[Rude.

But also? Nothing she hasn't heard before. She reminds herself what a great philosopher once said, and--]

Maybe like yours.

[rosewitch]

. . . my what.

[misty girl what even]

[thatsplato]

Like your curls. Your hair is so elegant. I’ll bet no one ever compares it to a dog, a doll’s way more likely.

[rosewitch]

[This is the weirdest thing that's ever happened possibly.]

I'd rather be compared to a dog.

[thatsplato]

[And unfortunately? That is what Misty aims for. If you don’t let them know it hurt you, you win. Unless they tell you that coach ben and that man on his insta aren’t just roommates.]

You have to get hair like mine, then. Everyone will line up to make jokes about how you’re a real bitch, a poodle.

But really, it’s better to just not care what they compare you to.

[rosewitch]

[Congratulations, Misty, this is a mindfuck that is actually new to Anthy Himemiya.]

It seemed like you cared a lot when you thought we were saying you couldn't kill someone.

[thatsplato]

Good thing, too.

Imagine, if everyone wrote down Lottie's name.

[rosewitch]

That wasn't why you were so upset.

[protomartyr]

[ nice. ]

[rosewitch]

[this approval means everything]